About Me

I have spent the first half of my career
as a pastor of the church, and the second half as a teacher in the university and the church. I experience much satisfaction working in both worlds. As I engage in ongoing research to support my third activity which is writing, I am constantly finding many interesting items on the net and from friends which I edit and share on my Colleagues List. That way, you too might enjoy information from the worlds of religion and culture. As of September 2016, this profile has received almost 1,800 hits.
Thanks for your interest!
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Saturday, December 26, 2015

Colleagues List, December 31st, 2015

Vol. XI. No. 19

*****END-OF-YEAR EDITIONGLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL IN SCOPECANADIAN IN PERSPECTIVE

Wayne A. Holst, EditorMy E-Mail Address:waholst@telus.netColleagues List Web Site:http://colleagueslist.blogspot.com"Quicklinks" are included with many itemsat the beginning of this issue. To get a morecomplete picture, however, scroll down tofind your special selection in the body ofthe blog.*****Design of this issue -Reflection on My Colleagues List, 2015Listing of Colleagues List issues, January-December 2015: Book Notice Summaries and Reviews;Articles, Notes, Interviews and Reflections--Net Notes:The Year in PicturesThe World Events that Mattered Most in 2015The Best Year in History for the Average Human--Closing Thought - Martin Luther*****Dear Colleagues and Friends:My last issue of Colleagues List each yearis unique. It is a compilation, with links, of all my book notices, reviews, columns and other reflections from 2015. This issue provides an easy way to catch up onmaterial you may have missed in the past year.I will also reflect a little on how I see ColleaguesList evolving as a religion and culture blog thatis 'global and ecumenical in scope, and Canadianin perspective.'--REFLECTION ON MY COLLEAGUES LIST, 2015My current thinking about this e-journal isto recognize ten years of production andseven years using the present blog format.The encouraging news is that Colleagues List repeats in 2015 what first occurred in2014. This blog received an average of1,000 hits a week, or a total of 52,000 hitssince December 31st last year. I am verygrateful for this response. I maintain an email core of about 300colleagues. These are the people who receivea weekly notification that a new issue hasbeen posted. The other 700 are those whoare drawn to the Colleagues List websitefor various reasons.My goal in 2016 will be to encourage more'visitors' to become 'colleagues' because colleagues on my mailing list are those more likely to be regular readers and contributors.I am grateful for the world-wide reach ofthis blog - into Europe, Asia, Africa andLatin America. I continue to try to makethis list a truly global source of religionand culture material and I really seek out international, ecumenical and inter-faithsources for information to share with you.Here are two ways you can help me.1. Let me know about sites that are helpful to you and may serve others. I can't promise to use them all, but will consider using them.2. Send me email addresses of friends to whom you have introduced this list and who would like to join. I will only add to membership the names and addresses of people who have agreed to join.Colleagues List is now entering itseleventh year of existence, and theeighth using the Blogger.com format.All told, I have created at total of511 issues (at 46.4 issues per year)or 323 Blogger.com issues (at 40.3issues per year.) The latter are allarchived and accessible.Just do a google search or checkout the left column "Blogger Archive" on the main page each week to findmaterial from past CL issues and any items published on CL by me since 2009.***SUMMARY OF COLLEAGUES LIST ISSUESJANUARY - DECEMBER 2015Book Notices, Articles, Interviews, ColumnsPlease note - in most cases, the first linkfor each article is to the CL issue where it first appeared. This is usually followed by back-up links to my book notice or article.If you have opened a particular book notice issuescroll down into the body of the blog to read the section "My Thoughts".Anglican Journal columns are listed separately.--2015 BOOK NOTICES (a total of 23)January 18th, 2015http://tinyurl.com/pme32fl"Simply Good News" by N.T. Wright third in a series:http://tinyurl.com/njdpxxmhttp://tinyurl.com/5sv6z24--February 8th, 2015http://tinyurl.com/okn5nk3"Convictions - How I Learned What Matters Most" by Marcus Borghttp://tinyurl.com/ond49dxhttp://tinyurl.com/p7lpal9http://tinyurl.com/mfpn728--February 15th, 2015http://tinyurl.com/o7g6yjd

See to it that you do not treat the gospel only as history, for that is only transient; neither regard it only as an example, for it is of no value without faith. Rather, see to it that you make this birth your own and that Christ be born in you.… Of what benefit would it be to me if Christ had been born a thousand times, and it would daily be sung into my ears in a most lovely manner, if I were never to hear that he was born for me and was to be my very own?--My next regular CL issue will be dated:Sunday, January 10th, 2016.Have a good New Year Celebration!Wayne(end)